Western Standard - CORY MORGAN SHOW： Carney’s bailouts will sink Canada

00:00:00.000 Good day, welcome to the Corey Morgan Show on it.

00:00:30.000 a special time because tomorrow is well it depends on who you ask canada day for most

00:00:35.520 for some of us going to mirror tomorrow we call it albertans day either way it is a regulated

00:00:40.800 holiday so we aren't going to be in the studio and doing things so we figured we'll do it on tuesday

00:00:45.680 and get that news and everything out to you so thanks for tuning in on this odd week you know

00:00:51.440 when you get those long weekends i mean it's one thing to have it on a friday or a monday but when

00:00:55.040 you kind of splat one right in the middle of the week there it's a little unusual people aren't

00:00:59.120 are used to that but whatever breaks up the work week for some folks and uh hopefully the rain will

00:01:03.720 lighten up for a little while down here all right so yeah a bit of stuff to cover i'm gonna guest

00:01:08.140 on a little while jerry amernick he's been on before he's an author he uh wrote sleepwoking

00:01:13.180 it turns out he was yet another one who was set up by that cbc funded group of people

00:01:18.500 to basically try and mock and make fools of them like with uh uh francis widdowson and some rcmp

00:01:24.940 officers and others so he'll talk a bit about that experience and some of the stuff we'll get to

00:01:29.020 know where our tax dollars are being spent with the state broadcaster as well of course lots of

00:01:35.580 other news and things to cover so let me get on with what's got me going today looking at stuff

00:01:40.420 so for an alleged economic wizard prime minister mark carney has been rather underwhelming on the

00:01:46.060 fiscal file since assuming office in fact he's appeared outright inept and the condo bailout in

00:01:51.600 bc demonstrates this in spades if the actions of the carney government can't be attributed to

00:01:56.460 ineptitude, it signals something even worse. The condo bailout is just the latest in a string of

00:02:01.580 actions from the government that amount to simply tossing billions of tax dollars at issues and

00:02:05.940 hoping they solve themselves. Developers built thousands of overpriced condo units in Vancouver

00:02:11.420 and found themselves stuck with over unsold units. Over a third of these apartments were priced at

00:02:16.720 over a million dollars plus exorbitant ongoing condo fees so it really shouldn't have been that

00:02:21.180 shocking that nobody was actually rushing out to snap up these units the proper approach in such

00:02:26.780 a situation is to let the developers sink they could either reduce the price of the condos to

00:02:31.340 an affordable level or they could go bankrupt and let the next owners of the units do what must be

00:02:36.460 done it's the ultimate and most simple of market corrections it offers a lesson to investors and

00:02:41.180 developers on the hazards of building overpriced products on bubbles and it brings the prices down

00:02:46.380 for consumers any grade 10 economic student could figure out those basic principles of supply and

00:02:51.340 demand unfortunately those principles appear to have eluded mark carney who's decided to take

00:02:56.460 your money and bail out the developers with it to the tune of billions of dollars now

00:03:01.420 incompetent developers get rewarded for their actions taxpayers get screwed and the housing

00:03:06.540 prices remain out of reach for common bc citizens everybody loses well everybody except those who 0.96

00:03:13.100 her well-connected developers lose anyways so is mark carney a complete incompetent with economics

00:03:19.340 or was there a benefit to him and his party that can't be seen and the objects of it all certainly

00:03:23.980 don't do many favors in fact the whole affair stinks to high heaven what is the long-term plan

00:03:28.460 of the government you know under carney to get canada's failing economy on track i mean while

00:03:33.100 the gdp per capita for americans has reached nearly 90 000 us dollars canada's remains mired

00:03:38.220 at 55,000 and sinking in comparison. Canada's entered a technical recession while Carney

00:03:44.260 continues to maintain the policies that put us there in the first place, namely the Trudeau

00:03:48.240 era policies of shutting in Western Canadian resources. Meanwhile, billions are being poured

00:03:53.240 into bailouts and Laurentian vanity projects, such as the grotesquely expensive Alto high-speed

00:03:58.880 rail boondoggle, which is priced at $90 billion and certain to rise. The project hasn't even laid

00:04:04.280 into track yet but already the executives are slurping up millions of tax dollars and bonuses

00:04:08.680 nice work if you can get it the new 25 billion dollar slush fund called canada strong is to be

00:04:13.800 directed at investing in canadian strategic interests i wonder how many of those strategic

00:04:18.760 interests happen to overlap with carney's personal financial interests or those of his compatriots

00:04:23.800 over 180 billion is going to be poured into military procurements over the next few years

00:04:27.480 you can almost hear the scurrying of little feet of hundreds of lobbyists in ottawa working to take

00:04:32.040 bites out of that fund. Billions are being dumped into the Canadian Arctic and some of that

00:04:36.180 investment has already been effective in buying the floor-crossing love of a Northern MP. It

00:04:40.540 remains to be seen how the common citizen in the tundra is going to see the rest of the benefits

00:04:44.200 though. Carney brought back the $5,000 rebate for EVs that nobody wants. When coupled with his deal

00:04:49.520 to import Chinese electric vehicles into Canada though, incentivizing the purchase of them with

00:04:53.880 tax dollars makes perfect sense to connected insiders on the deal anyway. In a little more

00:04:58.800 than a year, the Carney government has managed to make the Trudeau administration appear fiscally

00:05:03.620 responsible. That's no small feat. Carney's massively increased spending in the deficit

00:05:07.820 while maintaining a chokehold on resource development and exports. Costs to service

00:05:12.800 the Canadian debt continue to rise while the productivity in the nation continues to drop.

00:05:16.640 It's a bleak and ugly fiscal picture. So we get to ask ourselves again, is Carney really this

00:05:21.860 economically incompetent or is administration just did it to take the money and run? In either

00:05:26.880 scenario things are not looking good for the financial future of canadians unless you have

00:05:32.560 connections with the carny government then they're looking really nice by the way dave you got any

00:05:36.880 good investments with the carny government gonna make you some money not exactly corey no ah well

00:05:42.000 see so i see uh the dave number one is off visiting with the grandchild again yeah for all week we're

00:05:47.600 enjoying the the presence of dave whittick dave number two yeah i'm getting used to this new

00:05:51.760 setup this is my first time actually in this new studio yeah nice actually it's got a good look

00:05:55.600 to it i don't know about the table though for four people for the pipeline a little fella keeps us

00:05:58.960 from stacking with too many jugs of beer or something it sounds good well like we were

00:06:03.360 saying off camera cory it's kind of a bit of a slow news day but the big one that i was thinking

00:06:07.040 at least locally is the sheldon schumer's finally shut its doors today after all those years it was

00:06:11.200 calgary's only supervised consumption site i think it started in 2017 i know there's there's a lot of

00:06:16.640 people that are happy to see it go i know that dan mcclain for years talked about trying to shut

00:06:20.080 that place down the counselor so he's probably going to be happy today i'm thinking about you

00:06:23.920 Well, I would think. I don't know. He's not too happy because he didn't win a nomination.

00:06:26.920 He thought he was going to get it. That was good.

00:06:28.240 I know he didn't want to go there. Sorry, Dan. But, you know, that was unexpected.

00:06:32.240 But, well, welcome to the political life. I guess he's still safe as a councillor and can focus on that.

00:06:37.040 Yeah, no, exactly. And also as well, I think the biggest news is probably that Daniel Smith's pipeline proposal is going into the Major Projects office tomorrow.

00:06:43.840 That's what everyone's been talking about.

00:06:45.440 And also last night, a couple of sources that said they were close to the matter said that there is going to be no private proponent still for that.

00:06:50.980 So I think the Alberta government is going to be the initial proponent until they find a proponent, which I think has to be by October 1st before the feds make a decision on that.

00:06:59.020 But it doesn't really come as any surprise that there is no private proponent because you saw everyone from Synovus to Enbridge to you name it saying, we don't really feel like getting involved in this for any time soon.

00:07:08.420 Well, no, they've never made a secret of it. It's pretty straightforward. Do you want to build a pipeline to a coast with no guarantees, with a false indigenous authority being given to veto for it, and a tanker ban? So even if you got it all the way out there, you're not allowed to actually sell it beyond there. And lo and behold, nobody has stepped forward to say they're going to invest billions of dollars in this. I'm astounded.

00:07:30.080 well i mean i'm not surprised as well especially with the whole um pathways carbon project there

00:07:33.920 because that's supposed to cost if it goes ahead i think 20 to 30 billion and i mean you're not

00:07:38.320 really getting much return on your investment i don't think for that and that's another thing that

00:07:41.120 all these oil companies have been looking at for that so well it looks like alberta's paying all

00:07:45.600 the prices but getting none of the benefits it well that sounds like a run-of-the-mill confederation

00:07:49.440 actually unfortunately yeah we got another one here uh pauliev's actually um reshuffled his

00:07:55.040 shadow cabinet today and um he's branding uh the party's a new affordability team and he was naming

00:08:00.080 uh ontario mp michael chong as the conservatives new financial shadow financial critic but um

00:08:05.360 like we were saying before i don't really know who the actual financial critic was for the most

00:08:08.400 part because apparently some guy i think from calgary east that we never really heard of yeah

00:08:12.080 he was a member of parliament for northeast calgary i forget somebody mentioned his name

00:08:15.360 earlier sorry it shouldn't be so rude he might even be a follower online but i mean it that

00:08:20.560 does kind of say he's been pretty underwhelming in the role then because i mean there's a heck

00:08:23.760 of a lot of things that we could critique the the government on financially and and we never hear of

00:08:28.320 yeah no no exactly this is actually an interesting one too i don't know what your thoughts are and

00:08:32.080 this is an international one but um do you see that the u.s supreme court just shot down trump's um

00:08:37.120 idea about um oh what the heck is it the um citizenship the uh birthright birthright

00:08:42.320 citizenship thank you yeah five to four in the supreme court so i'm just wondering what your

00:08:45.760 thoughts were on birthright citizenship in general for canada because i from what i can gather i think

00:08:49.520 think some of the laws are fairly similar in both countries when it comes to that they are and i

00:08:53.840 don't know i mean it's one of those dicier areas i mean if you're trying to get immigration under 0.69

00:08:57.400 control but you're kind of letting it being out of control outside of your purview it's it's well

00:09:02.420 i guess that's why you get a split court decision on it i i i am sure that the orange man is going

00:09:06.560 to be in a grumpy mood for a little while though that won't help with the kuzma negotiation

00:09:09.320 well that's the other thing that we're going to mention kuzma supposed to i think what does it

00:09:12.700 expire tomorrow i think if that's what i'm remembering correctly yes we haven't for kind

00:09:17.300 a bit of sort of conflicting things what people have been saying about that i think carney i mean

00:09:21.220 again it's just very conflicting i think some people want it still some people don't i think

00:09:25.380 who do you think really would benefit if it basically got changed if trump just said no and

00:09:29.860 he actually stuck by that because he's always been saying for example that he doesn't maybe he might

00:09:33.700 sign it he might not sign it but i mean he says that constantly so i don't really know but what

00:09:38.020 happens if he actually follows through on that threat for canada if he says you know what we're

00:09:41.860 not actually signing it well you know ironically that stability might be finally okay then it's

00:09:46.260 it's not in the air and we can start planning around it i i it's one of the areas i don't envy

00:09:50.860 carney and and i don't fall too much i mean the how do you negotiate with a guy like trump yeah

00:09:55.720 he's so unpredictable like i said he's always you don't know if it's a real threat or it's just

00:09:59.300 nothing will surprise you they might sign on for the following 16 years as it used to be with the

00:10:04.340 renewal terms or or it might be out the window and we're gone to a year i was gonna ask you i

00:10:08.680 don't know if you know this but how long is it do they have a year or whatnot i think after it

00:10:11.840 expires i think there's a year some sort of like grace period or something if i remember correctly

00:10:15.700 I believe it kind of goes to a year-by-year sort of thing after that.

00:10:20.080 But, I mean, that's not good stability, especially when we look at projects, things, anything large.

00:10:24.360 It takes years to plan and so on.

00:10:26.320 You have to have some idea of what it's going to look like down the road or nobody's going to spend any money.

00:10:29.760 No, exactly.

00:10:30.620 Same as anything, really.

00:10:31.720 This is also an interesting one, too.

00:10:33.180 Apparently, do you remember the Canada Arm?

00:10:35.380 Yes.

00:10:35.700 Well, the Canada Arm 2 is getting repaired today at the International Space Station because there was some malfunctioning joint.

00:10:40.860 but i didn't actually know this but it's been there the candidate arm 2 has been there in

00:10:44.560 operation for more than 25 years and it says here that the repair is intended to restore the arm to

00:10:48.920 full service after i think the engineers detected some elevated electrical current in one of its

00:10:53.760 joints during a routine operations earlier this year that's kind of interesting because i just

00:10:57.520 thought like yeah i mean it was a big thing here earlier this morning and i just thought yeah you

00:11:01.000 don't really hear much about the canada armor really a bunch of space stuff except minus um

00:11:04.420 the spatial i can't even remember what the name of is it now that just came back into

00:11:08.740 uh no what was it i can't recall them anymore but yeah but i mean that was a point of pride i mean

00:11:13.460 one direct part that canada took part in and well you know i guess i won't get too upset about it

00:11:18.740 things wear out now and then though it's pretty serious when you're out in space though well i was

00:11:22.260 gonna say yeah that's something you definitely have to repair but yeah no other than that career

00:11:25.700 like i said it's been pretty slow news day so far like we were saying before it's basically just

00:11:29.060 summertime start of summer start a stampede so i think things are probably going to pick up next

00:11:32.900 week yeah and fairly hectic well we'll see if there's i'm sure there'll be some crazy stampede

00:11:36.980 stories and weirdness to come about as the drinking begins it's an early one this year i mean the

00:11:40.980 graves in a couple of days and uh yeah as long as it doesn't rain all week or something then we're

00:11:44.740 good to go we'll see or it looks like it's flying out west in canada yeah well i think up in toe

00:11:49.380 field and some areas too are getting this pretty bad in alberta actually i hope they can get a

00:11:52.980 break because it's just miserable i mean we need moisture but not that much moisture you can say

00:11:56.900 well when the guy phoned me who's up in lacrete alberta i was just talking to him or an hour or

00:12:00.980 so ago he said it was 32 degrees up there so he's saying you know you can send your rain up here

00:12:04.580 uh we'd never quite get what we wanted the right time no we don't ever seem to do we all right

00:12:10.500 well i'll let you back to the newsroom to keep looking for more stories and uh you know we'll

00:12:14.540 have more world cup soccer and other goodies to look at actually that's one quick thing what do

00:12:18.360 you actually do you watch the world cup no i knew that was going to be the answer yeah

00:12:22.080 no is a sentence yeah i mean hey i don't begrudge those who are enjoying it and having a good time

00:12:26.980 with it and i hope it goes great for everybody and you know i know it seems to say i'm i'm a

00:12:31.620 regionalist, but I'm still sure if Canada goes

00:12:33.700 a long ways and they manage to beat 0.97

00:12:35.380 whoever's next, Morocco or whatever, then 0.67

00:12:37.680 good on it. I was just going to say, so if you were

00:12:39.680 actually a soccer fan, you wouldn't be supporting Team

00:12:41.680 Canada then? I guess I

00:12:43.780 probably would be. Like I said, I'm not

00:12:45.740 embittered in that sense. I'm not anti-Canada.

00:12:47.820 I'm just pro-Alberta. I can juggle both.

00:12:50.360 I suppose.

00:12:51.940 Right on. Thanks, Corey. All right.

00:12:53.540 Well, I will see you after the show and then we'll get ready

00:12:55.620 for the pipeline. Sounds like a plan. Right on. Thanks.

00:12:57.780 Thanks. So yes, that is our

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00:14:40.420 water balloon season is coming okay we got Jerry Emmerich back on the show columnist and author

00:14:45.840 he's been on before we talked to him before about his book sleepwalking which is uh fantastic I just

00:14:50.920 liked the simple cover art of showing, well, somebody wandering blithely into the future

00:14:56.560 and not knowing where they're going. But it turns out he was another person targeted by that just

00:15:02.740 repugnant tax-funded hit piece, attempted show, I guess, that targeted Francis Widowson, some RCMP

00:15:09.640 officers and others. We're just hearing from more as time passes with that. So let's bring Jerry in

00:15:13.780 and have a conversation about that. Hey, good to see you again. I appreciate you joining the show 0.85

00:15:18.980 today hey cory thanks for having me back so you know i i don't know where to begin i mean i i

00:15:25.140 really enjoyed your your extended uh piece uh written on that uh boy what was it woke watch

00:15:30.660 i believe is the site you also wrote in the national uh that was a bit of a satirical piece

00:15:34.740 i did yes there was in cheek but you covered a lot of the events and what had happened with that

00:15:40.020 yeah maybe layout because you know you you kind of went through the whole process with it

00:15:45.540 uh with these guys you know what exactly happened you you were lured into a an interview uh where

00:15:52.900 there was just basically planned to be a satirical ambush piece yeah well uh actually i got an email

00:15:59.780 and it was on my birthday it was april 20th i got an email from a producer who said her name was

00:16:05.940 pam gibson and uh they were going to do a documentary series uh about johnny mcdonald

00:16:13.220 And the idea was to bring back the legacy of McDonald, the true legacy of McDonald.

00:16:18.600 So it was very pro-McDonald.

00:16:20.780 And I wanted to know where they got my name.

00:16:22.500 And they mentioned Patrice Dutill, whom I believe has been on your program before.

00:16:27.420 And they wanted to get Patrice, who's written a book about John A. McDonald,

00:16:32.660 and I think is the foremost authority on McDonald today in Canada, by the way.

00:16:37.740 And he wasn't able, but he said, well, you should probably talk to Jerry Amarnick.

00:16:41.560 They called me, and I confirmed that he did provide my name.

00:16:45.940 So everything seemed above board.

00:16:47.640 So there was some give and take.

00:16:50.360 They wanted to send me to Vancouver, pay an honorarium.

00:16:56.500 I had some questions.

00:16:57.960 Then they bump up the honorarium, and everything seems to be legit.

00:17:02.140 It's this company called Forge Media TV.

00:17:06.240 And so it all seemed to be above board.

00:17:09.040 So I flew out to Vancouver for a day and a night and had the interview there.

00:17:15.840 You know, I can't say that I thought it was very impressively done.

00:17:21.120 They had a lot of people there.

00:17:22.660 They had a full crew.

00:17:24.620 But never did I think I was being set up.

00:17:27.540 It was only after I came back to Toronto a couple days later, I was talking with James

00:17:33.220 Pugh, the editor of Woke Watch Canada, and I've written some pieces for him.

00:17:38.200 And he told me that it was a setup along with Francis Woodison was there the same day.

00:17:43.960 Lindsay Shepard was there the same day, but they made sure to keep us apart so we wouldn't overlap.

00:17:49.700 And then the thing got bigger.

00:17:51.380 And we've since discovered, Corey, that a lot of other people were targeted in this as well, including some former RCMP officers, other journalists they went after.

00:18:00.660 And, you know, when I first did an interview about this, I said, if the CBC is involved, it doesn't look very good on the CBC.

00:18:08.500 But, of course, they were, along with APTN, Northland Tales, as they call the series.

00:18:14.160 So the whole thing was a scam.

00:18:16.880 And the fact that your state public broadcaster is involved in this is pretty sad.

00:18:23.620 I don't know what else to say.

00:18:25.580 Well, yeah, I mean, if it was a private company, you know, it might be tasteless and whatnot.

00:18:29.840 But if it's their own dollars and they're trying to put something together like this, well, good on you, I guess.

00:18:34.060 And maybe you could find an audience.

00:18:35.380 But the state broadcaster of all institutions with a production that appears so heavily focused on undercutting pride in some of the foundational figures and institutions of Canada is just kind of extra repugnant.

00:18:52.560 I mean, it's not that the RCMP or McDonald were above reproach, but this is clearly something much uglier than that.

00:18:58.460 this is really you know along the lines of the people who tear down statues yeah well initially

00:19:02.780 well it's right on in line with that actually yeah you know i asked where is this going to air

00:19:08.480 when they first approached me they said it would air on the cbc in the fall so right away i said

00:19:15.340 well the cbc is no friend of johnny mcdonald and immediately do a search and look up the most

00:19:20.040 recent uh references to mcdonald on cbc and every one of them is negative so they assured me that's

00:19:27.700 not going to be the case they're a private company doing it but as i say everything they told me was

00:19:34.680 was not true uh that it was just really one lie after the other so um that that was uh the the

00:19:42.680 whole thing and uh you know i um i the national post called me he said would you like to do a

00:19:47.540 piece on this so i did and then i did a satirical piece for uh woke watch which got into a little

00:19:52.500 more detail and and was more uh with my personal sentiments so like all that is that a satire as i

00:20:00.500 said no and it was well written and enjoyable and it laid out a lot of just that process because

00:20:04.440 people wondering too and you know and you kind of just said in that way like because some people

00:20:09.160 say well how would francis fall for that or others well it's innocent enough if somebody

00:20:13.840 phoned me up and said hey you know we're gonna give you a flight in a hotel room and it sounds

00:20:17.720 honest and we'll talk about political things for an interview with an honorarium yeah why not i

00:20:23.060 mean i'll go for that contrary to what people believe that you don't get rich with independent

00:20:27.540 media so if i could make a few dollars and speak on the issues that'd be great well you know like

00:20:32.980 i said in that piece cory you know when people tell me who they are and what they're doing i i

00:20:38.440 tend to believe them i mean why wouldn't you right uh and then you find out later uh what was really

00:20:44.220 going on. So I think it's beyond disgusting. But I think the most disgusting thing in this whole 0.70

00:20:50.180 thing was their treatment of the former RCMP officers. Really, I mean, beyond disgusting.

00:20:57.620 And so there's nothing positive here. But again, the fact that the state broadcaster was involved

00:21:03.740 in this, it's pretty low and it's pretty sad. Yeah, well, and Patrice Dutille, that was

00:21:10.280 surprising and i mean i i've had him on i read his book uh his recent one i mean he's written a

00:21:14.720 number as you said he's an expert on sir johnny mcdonald and his book was not absent of critique

00:21:20.240 of of sir john a he didn't put him up as a a perfect person by any means he spoke of those

00:21:26.040 later years of his time in office and the challenges yeah self-doubt and those realities

00:21:31.000 but i mean it says a lot then that they're going after him you know francis witteson okay she likes

00:21:36.320 diving into the mix stirring things up i think she does fantastic work and she writes uh some

00:21:41.400 nuanced stuff as well but okay you could see why that would paint a target uh for for for opponents

00:21:46.600 i guess but with patrice this is a man who's just an academic who's who's writing some excellent

00:21:52.020 pieces that are balanced on mcdonald and they wanted to go after him as well that that's

00:21:58.140 they're really on an ugly agenda well i think they were actually going after anyone who questioned

00:22:04.780 the graves and kamloops story right uh and i and i'm in that uh that group as well but but i have

00:22:11.500 to tell you about johnny mcdonald i have a chapter in my book about johnny mcdonald i just call it

00:22:15.820 the trashing of johnny mcdonald and you know i did a lot of research on mcdonald in writing my

00:22:21.660 book sleepwalking and i have to tell you what i thought when i look at what i knew about mcdonald

00:22:26.780 when i started this project and what i know about him today you know everybody says he wasn't

00:22:32.540 perfect well i don't know anybody who is but i think i i i'm full of admiration for johnny

00:22:37.660 mcdonald the more i learned about him the more i admired them and when you look at the personal

00:22:42.300 tragedies he had to put up with i don't think people are really aware of that and and the

00:22:47.580 country i mean canada you can't think of canada in 1867 the way you think of canada today it was

00:22:53.500 very different he brought all these disparate groups together he was a master politician

00:22:58.140 and uh and it's amazing what he did and also in in threats of american annexation right uh it's

00:23:06.240 incredible what he did and and i think tomorrow was canada day i think i think the man should be

00:23:12.600 honored and respected but yeah no i just said the uh the federal government does not honor johnny

00:23:18.440 mcdonald and and he's not treated very well but by the feds and you know you look at all you

00:23:24.240 mentioned i was watching earlier you talked about the world cup and soccer people celebrating canada

00:23:28.760 going on in the world cup well that's great but i wonder if some of these people who are

00:23:32.020 celebrating this are also people who are tearing down mcdonald's statues you know

00:23:35.580 so um and and that's all due frankly to misinformation misinformation about mcdonald

00:23:43.820 well and i i find quite an irony with it in that you know we've got quite a an explosion of

00:23:48.820 regionalism in alberta a vote on independence uh sort of come a symbolic one anyways coming this

00:23:53.780 fall. I'm very much a part of that. I've always been so. And the people who've been trying to

00:23:59.720 undercut Canadian pride, whether it's through the RCMP, the residential schools, Sir John A.

00:24:03.420 MacDonald, then express shock when you see regionalist movements exploding and then people

00:24:07.720 feeling a lack of connection with the country that was holding together in the first place.

00:24:11.380 They don't seem to understand. They were the ones eroding those underpinnings for years now,

00:24:15.460 and this is the consequence of their actions. Well, I agree with you. I mean, I think the top,

00:24:21.540 The prime role of the federal government should be to unify the country.

00:24:25.400 And, you know, I don't think they're doing a very good job of that.

00:24:28.300 I don't think they've been doing a very good job of that for a number of years.

00:24:32.200 And, you know, I think we I think we have a leadership crisis.

00:24:36.240 And I think it's also in the opposition, too.

00:24:38.840 I mean, you know, I think I think we have a leadership crisis right across the board in this country.

00:24:44.200 And it's and it's a shame.

00:24:45.880 But my file that I like to specialize on, Corey, as you know, is the history file in historical revisionism.

00:24:52.700 And it's all about this misinformation about not only MacDonald, but other important historical figures who are part of Canadian history.

00:25:01.940 And, you know, if there are negative things about them that are true and factual, fine.

00:25:05.700 But a lot of the things that have come out about these historical figures are not true.

00:25:10.580 It's based on misinformation.

00:25:11.760 and um you know i like i say the feds should be up front in honoring johnny mcdonald i don't see

00:25:19.500 them doing that no and i mean we could be respectful of the past while critical of it i'm

00:25:25.100 as i said a a pretty uh unapologetic alberta independence type supporter yet at the same

00:25:30.080 time and i say to many of my public presentations i value the history of canada i value what the

00:25:34.740 people built to bring me the free state where i can uh lobby for what i do lobby for and and even

00:25:40.300 if we did become independent at some point it's still a part of our history it will still be there

00:25:45.420 and it should be accurately represented and respected for what it is it's it's the this

00:25:50.940 revisionism is is a terrible terrible trend in in the world uh particularly in canada well i don't

00:25:57.340 know if it's worse anywhere else than it is in canada because it's endemic here from coast to

00:26:02.700 coast and uh you know it it got worse over the well the last 10 years and and again after the

00:26:09.260 2021 announcement about the graves and kamloops a story that has zero evidence absolutely no

00:26:15.660 evidence at all uh that's what uh took it overboard and and was basically you know unruly

00:26:22.380 mob rule rioters tearing down statues of important historical figures across the country the notably

00:26:32.140 mcdonald i think he has suffered the biggest fall from grace i was at a meeting uh two months ago

00:26:38.140 in prince edward county ontario in picton not far from kingston where mcdonald began his law career

00:26:44.300 and the council had a motion there to bring back the statue of mcdonald that was uh it was uh

00:26:49.980 commissioned by ruth abernathy an internationally acclaimed a sculpt sculptress uh it went up in

00:26:55.900 2015 and in 2021 they removed it and they were debating whether to bring it back and they voted

00:27:01.660 against bringing it back i was there to do a deputation why they should bring the statue back

00:27:07.180 but you had all these activists some of them in that were indigenous some of them weren't and

00:27:11.740 you know painting mcdonald as a racist and bigot and did all these terrible things and

00:27:17.260 and pretty well everything they said was incorrect but uh you know the council uh 0.92

00:27:23.420 voted eight to six against bringing the statue back which is ridiculous so this is again

00:27:28.460 They're historical revisionism based on what I call mob rule and misinformation. 0.82

00:27:34.940 Well, the other part's political cowardice.

00:27:37.060 I believe in front of Queen's Park, Sir John A. MacDonald was boarded up and covered for a couple of years.

00:27:42.860 Five years, yeah.

00:27:44.280 Ford couldn't find the courage to say, you know what, we're going to put it out there.

00:27:48.920 And if we must, we'll put security in front of it and put cameras on it.

00:27:52.540 But we're not going to let bullies push away parts of our history.

00:27:55.600 But instead, he took the cowardly approach and just let it be hidden for years.

00:27:59.280 I mean, that's an embarrassment on a number of levels.

00:28:02.240 Well, I think I agree with you.

00:28:04.360 And, you know, I think we've got cowards provincially and federally, certainly on the history file.

00:28:09.920 We can go into other issues if you want.

00:28:11.660 But on the history file, they've just done a horrible job.

00:28:14.540 And again, you know, look at facts.

00:28:17.360 What I've done in my book is I look at biographies that have been written, you know, Hansard laws, legislation, a lot of stuff I uncovered in doing my research on McDonald's and other figures.

00:28:31.940 And like I say, in his case, the more I found out about him, the more I came to admire them.

00:28:36.980 I mean, he really almost single handedly created this country.

00:28:41.100 And I think he should be honored and respected for that.

00:28:44.680 No, absolutely.

00:28:45.400 I'm in full agreement there.

00:28:46.500 i mean i i love history uh and that's why i was thrilled to have patrice on and read his book i

00:28:51.300 mean it added so much more depth to a man who who was an incredible figure and strong and and uh

00:28:58.900 we could have done a heck of a lot worse for a national founder if people would just realize

00:29:02.980 that so uh you know just throw one more you know plug out for him and yourself look it up people

00:29:08.340 there's a lot of history that we should be reading and embracing and not letting me these uh cancel

00:29:13.940 folks uh pull off stunts like that so maybe just in closing do you think that that production now

00:29:19.100 that it kind of blew up in their face uh you know it's kind of where we began with that that fake

00:29:23.460 uh outfit do you think it's ever going to air i mean it looks to me like they kind of embarrassed

00:29:27.120 themselves it's probably going to end up on the shelf yeah well the well the cbc came out with

00:29:32.200 their statement a while back where they said it's on pause so i haven't heard anything else uh but

00:29:37.900 i think would be pretty difficult for it to air there's been a lot of publicity about it

00:29:42.360 All of it negative, deservedly so.

00:29:44.920 So I don't see how it can air.

00:29:47.000 But I mean, who knows?

00:29:48.480 I mean, if someone had asked me a few months ago, would the CBC stoop to something like this?

00:29:53.800 I would have thought, no, I, you know, I thought like, I'm not a fan, but I would have said no, but I was wrong.

00:29:59.500 So they did.

00:30:00.420 So who knows?

00:30:01.960 That's a sad state.

00:30:03.000 Well, thanks for sharing all that on Woke Watch and National Post and for your book.

00:30:07.600 You know, and you've written a number of others and nonfiction as well.

00:30:10.200 before I let you go, where can people find your work and, you know, keep up with what you're up

00:30:14.200 to? Well, Sleepwoking is available on Amazon, amazon.ca. We had a launch in Toronto a while

00:30:21.120 back. And earlier in June, we had one in Vancouver that was quite successful. And it seems to have

00:30:27.500 cotton on with a lot of readers out West. So you can find it on Amazon, amazon.ca. You can get it

00:30:33.920 on my website, jerryamernick.com. Great. Well, thanks again. It was good talking with you. And

00:30:39.840 thanks for pushing back. You know, if people won't speak up and speak out about what's going on,

00:30:44.400 well, they'll continue to get away with it. So I appreciate your effort and your writings and

00:30:49.960 look forward to talking to you again. Okay. Thank you, Corey. You take care.

00:30:53.920 Great. Thank you. So one more time, guys, Jerry Amernick, if you look it up, sleepwalking and

00:30:58.200 a number of other columns, articles, things over the years. And what a, just, you know,

00:31:03.800 this is your tax dollars. This is the state broadcaster. I mean, I question whether such

00:31:07.780 broadcaster should even exist but if it must if it must the mandate should be as heavily history

00:31:16.500 laden accurate history laden you know pro canada educating people on the nation instilling pride

00:31:23.620 in the nation and it's it's agenda its approach has gone so far off the deep end the only i guess

00:31:31.940 almost cold comfort in the bunch is is that uh not many people watch it anymore we all have to

00:31:37.460 pay for it but it really it's hard to say how much impact it really has anymore because uh the

00:31:44.180 viewership levels are terrible but you know when we talk about independent media we talk about

00:31:48.020 dollars i mean you look at the cbc let's just say again if we felt you know in the modern world when

00:31:52.980 conventional media can't afford to operate like it used to we don't have the demand for advertising

00:31:57.220 and newspapers classified ads uh you know television ads like they're used to let's say

00:32:01.460 the Canadians were comfortable spending 1.4 billion dollars a year for news broadcasting.

00:32:08.500 Think of how that would break out if it wasn't the CBC. What about if we put it in the hands of

00:32:12.980 creative people? That would add up to let's say 140 independent media outlets in every province

00:32:21.860 in Canada with a 1 million dollar a year budget each. What would give more news, more coverage,

00:32:29.860 more ability in general local news things like that because that's what's been suffering right

00:32:33.940 local news small towns places like that if every province had 140 units that were making a million

00:32:39.540 dollars each just well no a million dollars just from the tax funding maybe if they sold

00:32:42.980 some more advertising and so on they would be larger that would be thousands of reporters

00:32:48.100 across the country 1400 outlets broadcasting online or putting out stories would we get 0.99

00:32:56.020 more value out of that or the cbc that runs these these these garbage attack pieces and crap like 0.88

00:33:03.460 this i mean again i think that you know i don't think the government should fund for 1400 outlets 0.86

00:33:09.780 but i'm just saying i would rather see that it would definitely do canada more good than what

00:33:14.900 we're getting out of it right now i mean what a sad state of affairs and and as you know we

00:33:20.740 we couldn't talk long enough to cover it all. The RCMP officers, people who served, you know,

00:33:26.320 and there's lots of things to question with the RCMP contemporary and in the past, but still most

00:33:30.180 officers, they took on a tough job with a lot of dangerous and terrible circumstances, situations.

00:33:36.920 They would be, you know, stationed in areas away from home. It's not an easy thing and it's a thing

00:33:41.040 of pride. And then to have them brought into one of these ambush things and humiliated

00:33:44.720 by these these clowns and uh again if you look it up in woke watch and jerry breaks it down a little 0.66

00:33:52.200 more like the producers they weren't even you know canadian it was some guy named igor from 0.98

00:33:55.760 the united states and somebody else like they don't even hire local people to do their crappy

00:34:00.580 hit pieces some people try to compare it to like borat and how he set people up and things like

00:34:04.700 that okay a couple of things for one borat was funny for another it wasn't funded by your tax

00:34:10.840 dollars. Big difference. Huge difference, as a matter of fact. Now, let's cover a couple other

00:34:17.540 news things. It's Pride Week or Pride Month or whatever. We come to the end of it. And Toronto

00:34:25.280 has had its annual Fetish Fest, because that's all it is now, unfortunately. This huge parade

00:34:31.780 of just perversion. Guys walking around with their peckers hanging out in front of children.

00:34:37.540 this how is this unifying communities why do they have to bring it to this extreme of grossness

00:34:47.460 a guy who was on a leash with a dog face on and some other stuff greeting the prime minister

00:34:51.620 you know it used to be this is having events so people could understand that people

00:34:59.600 in the lgdb community could have some pride that they want to live like everybody else as most

00:35:05.320 members of that community do and it used to be something that was described as shamed for someone

00:35:10.640 to be gay and it was illegal until what 1969 sure there was a reason for these pride events but now 0.99

00:35:17.600 they've morphed the the activists the lunatics and the perverts let's just say it they're perverts 0.98

00:35:22.700 are dominating these now they were whining about it on a outlet the other day oh they're seven 0.96

00:35:28.540 hundred thousand dollars short on their parade why because the sponsors dropped out why because 0.93

00:35:33.000 you're waving your dicks in the faces of children no sponsor is going to cover that you guys

00:35:39.040 this thing needs a reset and then people get on pierre pauliev's case why isn't he attending 0.98

00:35:47.880 these events well that's why why should he quit that bullying quit that pushing in fact most

00:35:53.960 politicians should start boycotting the events when they go that far say that's it i'm not going

00:35:57.380 there i have nothing to do with it i will not endorse it until you guys clean it up because

00:36:02.840 this is not something that anybody should be endorsing. It's an embarrassment. And if anything,

00:36:07.620 it brings more distrust and hate upon a community that doesn't need more of it. It's the extreme

00:36:14.760 end of a minority community being represented at these things now.

00:36:19.340 So quit twisting people's arms to go. Make it a better function. I went to pride events back in

00:36:26.260 the 90s. It was a great parade in Calgary and a gathering in a park downtown. No, I'm not gay,

00:36:32.680 but whatever i had a girlfriend took me to those things because a friend of hers was there and it

00:36:35.880 was a good experience to get to know people because back then especially the gay community

00:36:40.840 was a a mysterious thing to most of us we weren't uh raised that way in the 70s and 80s to be 0.95

00:36:46.200 embracing of it we realized they are just neighbors friends folks that are just moving along and not

00:36:51.160 bothering anybody they just wanted to be able to come out in the open for who they are and that's

00:36:55.720 what it was and it was valuable and it helped a lot of people including me but now now you go there

00:37:01.880 and and and it just it in fact they highlight all of the worst stereotypes about the community

00:37:07.760 you know the issues that would come with perversion promiscuity fetishism it's it's it's

00:37:14.280 again if you're grown adults do whatever the hell you please absolutely but there's no need to parade

00:37:20.200 it and i just it's time for public figures and others i notice again as i said corporate

00:37:25.120 candidates pulling out they're saying we're not funding this anymore you guys uh you know

00:37:31.160 feisty fire saying a los angeles man was arrested for shooting naked people with a bb gun i imagine

00:37:35.820 as they rode their bikes in the nude okay yeah well these are mixed things i understand the 0.99

00:37:40.920 frustration and the grossness with these stupid nude bike rides and all that crap too but it's 0.99

00:37:46.480 not advisable to shoot at people with bb guns either way i i understand the problems both ways 0.99

00:37:50.820 with that plus you know this comes down to some of the other things just to go further

00:37:53.920 bb guns paintball guns replica guns even if they are technically harmless they're very very dangerous

00:38:00.800 don't ever point those at people uh police officers can't necessarily tell the difference

00:38:04.440 fast enough and just things could go much much worse plus uh as per the old christmas movie

00:38:10.040 even if it's some ding dong riding around nude on a bike he could take an eye out with one of 0.67

00:38:13.860 those things whether his uh his own thingy or the bb's so let's keep it from getting violent with 0.98

00:38:18.420 these things but let's start uh yeah i think they should be starting to charge some of these people

00:38:22.860 for public nudity that's enough we got standards and such if you walked down the street with your

00:38:27.760 junk jangling around, typically downtown, you will find yourself incarcerated and covered up

00:38:32.220 really fast. Just because it's some pride parade full of other fetishists doesn't mean it should

00:38:36.800 be allowed. And it's not a family event. And to be honest, it's just getting gross.

00:38:42.640 That's where they are. Let's see another headline here. Here it shows some of the idiocy of legacy

00:38:46.900 media. This is the Globe and Mail, the old Toronto Globe. And that's not an American story, but it's 1.00

00:38:51.500 applying everywhere these days, right? Again, when the activists have gone way overboard and into the

00:38:55.540 realm of stupidity and extremism. Supreme Court allows some states to ban transgender girls and 1.00

00:39:01.380 women from school athletic teams. That's the Globe headline. But the problem is it's not banning 1.00

00:39:07.680 girls and women from athletic teams. It's banning men pretending to be women from being on girls

00:39:13.880 athletic teams. Let's be clear about what it is. Nobody is being banned from sports. They just have 0.54

00:39:19.840 to participate in the ones that their plumbing designates them to. Men can compete with men,

00:39:26.680 women can compete with women, but if you want to play pretend, you don't get to compete with 0.78

00:39:33.560 the other group. That's the way it goes. Sorry, take it up with God if you feel there is one. 1.00

00:39:38.420 If you were born with the parts you don't feel you deserve to have, you do many, many, many things 0.71

00:39:43.280 in life, but you can't go into the girls team if you were born with a pecker and knackers. That's

00:39:49.000 life, get over it. It's sad that it had to go to a Supreme Court ruling in the United States,

00:39:53.920 and this is happening all over the world. Most countries are backing off on it, even

00:39:58.660 left-leaning, socially progressive European countries. They're realizing this is too far.

00:40:07.240 This is stupid. You cannot have somebody with the physique of a man 1.00

00:40:11.340 participating on a woman's rugby team. Somebody's going to get hurt. You can't get a swimmer like 1.00

00:40:17.400 that pervert down in the States, walking around in the girls' change room with his fully uncut 0.99

00:40:21.900 junk flapping around in there, and unfairly stealing medals from women who worked very hard 0.98

00:40:27.800 to win the top of their role in that sport. And it's getting knocked out finally, but it has to

00:40:34.940 be a battle, and that's ridiculous. I do love, and I can't remember her name, it doesn't matter,

00:40:39.200 that weird purple head lunatic who was the head of the American women's soccer team, you know, 1.00

00:40:44.320 apparently a very good soccer player they were one of the better ones I guess the women's the 1.00

00:40:48.520 American women's team and she's one of the trans activists says we should allow men to compete in

00:40:52.860 these teams or sorry trans women spare me their men her team her national American women's team

00:40:59.680 you can look this up lost when playing against a team of male 15 year olds when they sit and 0.87

00:41:08.160 pretend that there's no genetic advantage for women versus men yet the top one of the top

00:41:13.900 women's soccer teams in the world couldn't beat a high school team of men boys for that matter

00:41:21.660 it kind of shows the problem doesn't it things are broken up by gender quit quit pretending 0.83

00:41:28.980 let's get real we can't change biological reality again people want to try it for themselves they're 0.51

00:41:36.400 trans they go live your life i hope for all the best i hope you're happy i hope you find a good

00:41:40.440 relationship all that good stuff but you're still whatever the heck you were born you can you can

00:41:45.620 have some some surgery to change some things and some therapies and hormones to make them seem as

00:41:49.880 close to the other side as you can but you know what you're still stuck with the other thing and

00:41:54.900 we were talking about that in prisons and things too what was that case was in new jersey or

00:41:57.660 somewhere where they actually you know again put a guy with his full junk and the whole works into 1.00

00:42:01.000 a women's prison and guess what he impregnated a bunch of them god really and you know that nut 0.99

00:42:08.680 case who was heading the the the ndp group uh out in vancouver she uh she she led their leadership 1.00

00:42:14.220 race that weird one uh what a bizarre thing but she actually fought for sexual assault centers 1.00

00:42:20.680 to allow men within them women who are trying to get away from being sexually assaulted shelters 1.00

00:42:25.340 that's the point and she felt it's a right to have men with all their physical parts in these safe

00:42:31.480 spaces next to the women i guess an abusive rapist could just say no no i'm identifying as a woman

00:42:36.420 this week, please put me in the apartment with the others and you can have a good old time, right? 0.98

00:42:40.820 Nuts. Nuts. No, pardon the pun. That really was unintentional. These are the headlines these

00:42:46.920 days, right? One more thing, the court ruling in the Stay Free Alberta petition. That was

00:42:51.300 interesting. So, I mean, we're not going to see a referendum question change. That's going to stay

00:42:56.140 the same, but at least the numbers will be counted. And guys like Nenshi who keep saying the petition

00:43:02.320 is invalid or it was signed by a bunch of fake signatures because of the david parker's idiocy

00:43:07.100 nothing to do with any of that so they'll be able to clarify that and the work of all those 0.73

00:43:11.880 thousands of petitioners who got hundreds of thousands of albertans to sign will at least

00:43:15.580 be verified and proven that people did want this referendum and it was all signed and done in good

00:43:21.840 faith so i'm looking forward to that and i guess i'll close out with a plug for those going out

00:43:28.520 in mirror alberta just east of red deer every year there's a big event at that's chris scott's

00:43:33.120 whistle stop cafe if you look it up from 10 o'clock until the evening it's going to be albertan's day

00:43:38.200 it's turned into an annual tradition i'll be there uh as well a bunch of others there's going to be 0.99

00:43:42.220 public speakers there's going to be food there's going to be bands i think tamara leach is going

00:43:46.780 to be playing uh there's going to be yeah something like 60 vendors they think uh showing up out there

00:43:52.220 last year there was about 3 200 people came out to that hoping to have a lot more of them coming

00:43:56.940 out this year it should be a really good time i look forward to seeing and meeting a lot of you

00:44:00.860 guys there it will be a good fun event hopefully the weather cooperates just things to remind

00:44:06.860 people of bring an umbrella chances are it might get a little bit of rain now and then but supposed

00:44:11.020 to be looking better than it has been recently bring bug dope or for those who haven't worked

00:44:15.180 in the bush mosquito repellent they are fierce right now and the second the the the rain stops

00:44:22.140 the skeeters come out so i just want everybody to have a good time these are a couple of things to 0.97

00:44:25.100 to think of uh bring in if you're going to come out there but hey if you have the day free what

00:44:29.620 the heck it's the middle of the week drive out check it out loads of independence-minded albertans

00:44:34.240 having a good time having some good food and networking and just meeting with each other i

00:44:38.760 look forward to meeting some of you guys face to face so people can see i really do exist in the

00:44:43.580 wild sometimes all right guys thank you for tuning in and the pipeline will be on tomorrow night with

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00:44:58.420 guys and we will see you next week on the cover the whole the rest of the news is broken by then

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Western Standard - July 04, 2026

CORY MORGAN SHOW： Carney’s bailouts will sink Canada

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